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A Simple Book Repair Manual: Parts of a Book
Please Choose a Chapter
Book Repair Manual
Introduction
Guiding Principles
Setting up the Area
Toolbox
Parts of a Book
Practical Guidelines
Identifying Repairable Materials
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Your Comments
**Choose a Repair**
Self-Closing Wrapper
Cleaning
Torn Pages
Tip in a Page
Hinge Repair
Corner Repair
Sewing a Single Signature
Spine Repair
Air Dry Method
Hinge Tightening
FAQs
Parts of a Book
Board
Crash: (also called mull, or super)
Endsheet
Flyleaf
Fore-edge
Gutter
Head
Hinge
Joint
Lining
Paste down
Spine
Spine piece
Square
Tail
Text block
Last Updated: 1/5/12